Record

CodeP/0018
Datesc.1680-1731
Person NameCotton; Sir; John (c.1680-1731); 4th Baronet; of Conington
SurnameCotton
ForenamesJohn
PreTitleSir
Title4th Baronet
Epithetof Conington
ActivityLess is known of Sir John Cotton, 4th Baronet, than his predecessors who held this title. He may have been illiterate, yet his family's immense collection of books provided an immense windfall for the family on its sale to the state. Compared to his predecessors he does not seem to have been as active, with little evidence that he held local offices other than as an MP, where he earned a reputation as an absent member, with only one recorded vote from 1710-1713. He was certainly unlucky, facing lawsuits that sapped his resources, and seeing his children die before him. On his death he left some £4,000 in personal bequests as well as land and money for the establishment of charities including schools for the poor.
RelationshipsFather: John Cotton (c.1650-1681)
Mother: Frances Downing, daughter of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet (c.1624/5-c.1684)
Spouse: Elizabeth Herbert, (m.1708) daughter of James Herbert
Children: Mary Cotton (d.1714) m. Roger Kenyon
Catharine Cotton (died an infant)
Linked entries in the catalogue
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KFIELDEN/F5/9/8Lease for a Year. Sir John Cotton Bart of Connington, son and heir of John Cotton, dead and others to John Underwood and Richard Cox.
KCON/5/3/6Cotton v. Cotton. Briefs.
KCON/3/1/A/44Memorandum of lease
KCON/3/1/A/30Exemplification of Common Recovery
KCON/2/4/A/61Final Concord
KFIELDEN/F5/9/9Deed. By Sir John Cotton to make a tenant to the praecipe declaring uses of his Hunts estates.
KCON/3/15/5Power of Attorney
KCON/3/1/A/35Deed to Declare Uses of Common Recovery
KCON/4/2/1/4Rental of lands in Conington. Addressed to Thomas Cotton, Esq. of the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster.
KCON/5/3/9Cotton v. Cotton; Answer of Sir John Cotton, Bart, deft., to the Bill of Complaint of Robert Cotton, Esq., Mary Honeywood Cotton, Spinster, Sir Miles Heneage, Kt., and John Proby, Esq., and Robert and Philip Cotton, Conington, Cambs., Esqs., complts.
KCON/3/1/A/38Memorandum of lease
KCON/2/4/A/51Abstract
KCON/2/4/A/60Exemplification of Common Recovery
KCON/3/1/A/37Memorandum of lease
KCON/3/1/A/43Lease
KCON/3/1/A/42Lease
KCON/3/1/A/31Demise for a Term (with Counterpart)
KCON/5/3/3Cotton v. Cotton Bill of Complaint (and draft and amended bill)
KFIELDEN/F5/8/10Will. Sir John Cotton, Bart, of Conington.
KCON/3/1/A/28Lease
KCON/3/1/D/1Grant (in Trust); (With counterpart and abstract)
KCON/3/1/A/45Assignment of a Term in Trust
KFIELDEN/F5/9/3Fine. Sir Robert Cotton and Phil Cotton, plaintiffs and Sir John Cotton, Bart and Robert Cotton defendants.
KFIELDEN/F5/9/10Will. Sir John Cotton of Conington.
KCON/2/4/A/58Marriage Settlement
KCON/5/3/5Cotton v. Cotton Statement of Case
KCON/3/1/A/40Lease
KCON/5/3/4Assignment and Power of Attorney
KCON/5/3/10Cotton v. Cotton Bill of Complaint of Sir John Cotton, Bart., Administrator of the goods of John Cotton, Esq., his late father decd.
KCON/3/1/A/34Exemplification of Common Recovery
KCON/3/1/A/36Memorandum of Lease
KCON/3/1/E/10Agreement (Draft); For securing the stipend of the living of C.
KCON/2/4/A/56Quitclaim
KCON/3/1/A/41Lease
KCON/3/14/3Release (for Collateral Security)
KCON/5/3/14Cotton v. Cotton Mary Honeywood Cotton, one of the defendants' answer to the Bill of Complaint of Sir John Cotton, Bart, complainant.
K588/F/34Pedigree book and cartulary of Cotton family of Conington with ink sketches of achievements and monuments of a knight.
KCON/3/1/A/46Assignment of a Term in Trust
KCON/3/1/A/49Lease
KCON/5/3/11Cotton v. Cotton Lewis Monoux, Esq., one of the defts., answer to the Bill of Complaint of Sir John C., Bart. complt.
KCON/5/3/12Cotton v. Cotton William Hanbury, one of the defendants' answer to the Bill of Complaint of Sir John Cotton, Bart, complt.
KCON/5/3/13Cotton v. Cotton Robert Pulleyn, Esq., one of the defendants, answer to the Bill of Complaint of Sir John Cotton, Bart, complt.
KFIELDEN/F3/7/11Schedule of deed relating to the Manor of Glatton purchased by Thomas Truman from Sir John Cotton, Bart, commencing with grant from James I, 16 July 9 James I.
KCON/5/3/8Cotton. v. Cotton Counsel's Opinion from Nicolas Hooper.
KCON/3/1/A/39Memorandum of Agreement as to lease
KCON/3/1/A/33Bargain and Sale (and Draft)
KCON/3/1/E/7Grant (Deed of Augmentation)
KCON/7/3/2Letter from Alex. Murray, Symonds Inn, to John Heathcote, Esq. re. the annuity of £20 for the Rector of Conington.
KCON/3/1/C/1Bargain and Sale
KHP17/6/2List of Cotton family monumental inscriptions.
KCON/5/3/7Cotton v. Cotton Brief of Bill
KCON/3/1/A/32Demise for a Term (and Counterpart)
KCON/8/1Pedigree of the Brus-Cotton family, showing the descent of the lordship of Conington, Hunts, from Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon to whom St. Edward the Confessor gave it after he had banished Turkill the Dane.
KFIELDEN/F5/8/6Release. Sir John Cotton to trustees.
KCON/2/4/A/59Deed to Lead Uses of Common Recovery (Lease and Release)
KCON/3/1/A/29Deed to Lead Uses of Common Recovery
KCON/2/1/4Will Sir John Cotton of Conington, Hunts, Bart.
KCON/2/4/A/57Assignment of a Term in Trust (and Counterpart)
KCON/5/3/15Cotton v. Cotton; Answer of Sir Robert Cotton, Kt and Thomas C., Esq. son and heir of William C., Esq., decd. defendants, to the Bill of Complaint of Sir John Cotton, Bart, complainant.
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